A MAN who was told he would never walk again is confounding doctors for a second time.

Bryan Wright suffered a broken back and nerve damage to his arm when he was mown down by car thieves near Hinckley three years ago.

Now after taking his first steps thanks to intensive physiotherapy and calipers, the 55-year-old Coventry engineer plans to start driving again.

He has been getting taxis to get to work at JS Chinn, in Coventry Road, Exhall, but is looking forward to the freedom that having his own car will provide.

The dad-of-four, from Sapcote Road, Burbage, said: “My licence needs changing and I will have a system of levers for the brakes and accelerator and other ingenious contraptions.

“It will give me the flexibility to stay late if I need to, but work has been brilliant with its support: I had a mainly office-based job which they held for me.”

Bryan was hurt when he was flung into the path of a 4x4 as he tried to stop thieves stealing his BMW in February 2007.

He has had several operations, including one to transplant tendons from his arm to his hand and another to transplant nerves, and was able to take some steps down the aisle at his son Oliver’s wedding in September 2008.

Bryan said: “There are dark days but I hope anyone who suffers a serious injury would look at where I was back then and where I am now.”